Obama’s New Policy Protects Young Immigrants

Lovely news this morning: “The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives,” the Associated Press reports. The caveats: immigrants, who must be younger than 30, will had to have moved here before their 16th birthday, graduated from high school and/or served in the military, and “have been in the country for at least five continuous years.”

Despite what we’re all sure to hear on Fox and Friends—our generation’s Bloomsbury Group—the law is not a form of insta-citizenship. Rather, it is insurance against the threat of deportation, as well as a means for those who qualify to legally hold a job. President Obama will explain all of this at 1:15 p.m. in an address from the White House Rose Garden. Those remarks will subsequently be taken out of context in forthcoming blog posts like, “Hip-Hop President Barack Hussein Obama Gets Giggy [sic] with Open Borders.”